Description

WordPress Gallery Plugin

NextGEN Gallery has been the industry’s standard WordPress gallery plugin since 2007 and continues to receive over 1.5 million new downloads per year. It’s easy for simple photo galleries, but powerful enough for the most demanding photographers, visual artists, and imaging professionals.

On the back end, NextGEN offers a complete WordPress gallery management system with the ability to batch upload photos, import meta data, add/delete/rearrange/sort photos, edit thumbnails, group galleries into albums, and more.

On the front end, the free version of NextGEN provides two main gallery display styles (slideshows and thumbnail galleries) and two album styles (compact and extended), all of which come with a wide array of options for controlling size, style, timing, transitions, controls, lightbox effects, and more.

About Imagely

NextGEN Gallery is maintained by Imagely. We’re the WordPress photography experts. In addition to NextGEN Gallery, NextGEN Plus, and NextGEN Pro, we also make Genesis WordPress themes for photographers, provide managed WordPress hosting for photographers, and run the WordPress Photography Podcast.

Credits

This program is free software. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA

Shortcode

NextGEN Gallery 2.x introduces our new Insert Gallery Window, which means you never need to work with shortcodes again if you would prefer not too.

If you do want to work with shortcodes, we’ve also introduce a new, more powerful, and more flexible shortcode system with NextGEN Gallery 2.0.

Installation

INSTALLATION: The easiest way to start uploading your photos is to login to you WordPress dashboard, go to Plugins >> Add New, search for NextGEN Gallery, and click to install. You can also download the zip file from this page and upload it from the Plugins >> Add New > Upload page.

HOW TO USE: Just go to a page or post and click the NextGEN Gallery icon. From our Insert Gallery Window, you can create, manage, customize, and display your photo galleries. You can also manage your photo galleries and gallery settings from the central options area under the “Gallery” tab on your dashboard menu.

That’s it … have fun! For more information, feel free to visit the official website for the NextGEN Gallery WordPress Gallery Plugin.

FAQ

Installation Instructions

INSTALLATION: The easiest way to start uploading your photos is to login to you WordPress dashboard, go to Plugins >> Add New, search for NextGEN Gallery, and click to install. You can also download the zip file from this page and upload it from the Plugins >> Add New > Upload page.

HOW TO USE: Just go to a page or post and click the NextGEN Gallery icon. From our Insert Gallery Window, you can create, manage, customize, and display your photo galleries. You can also manage your photo galleries and gallery settings from the central options area under the “Gallery” tab on your dashboard menu.

That’s it … have fun! For more information, feel free to visit the official website for the NextGEN Gallery WordPress Gallery Plugin.

Why are my photo galleries not opening up in a lightbox after I move my site?

This is often due to the URL paths to the CSS and JavaScript files used by the Lightbox Effects not being changed to relevant addresses based on the new site. This article will help sort out this issue if that is the case: Why are my galleries not opening up in a lightbox?.

Part of what makes the NextGEN Gallery WordPress gallery plugin so popular is its flexibility – it works with the vast majority of premium and free themes, without requiring any coding.

Are the photo galleries flash based?

No, NextGEN Gallery uses Javascript and jQuery based displays to ensure compatibility across the widest range of displays possible.

Are the galleries mobile friendly?

Yes, since we use Javascript rather than flash, NextGEN Gallery is compatible with Android, iOS, and Blackberry. As of July 2013, all photo galleries are responsive. NextGEN Pro also includes a full screen, responsive Pro Lightbox with mobile gesture support.

Yes, WordPress allows you to password protect pages by default – which includes all photo galleries and content for the entire page. Password protection of pages can be turned on and off at any time, with just a few clicks.

Can I add a watermark to the photos/slideshows?

Yes, you can add text or image watermarks to your gallery images.

Can I crop thumbnails?

Yes, each thumbnail image can be individually adjusted to suit your needs.

Is there pagination for photo galleries?

Yes, and you can adjust the amount of images to be shown on a page at any time.

Can I customize the lightbox?

Yes, the lightbox can be configured with multiple options directly from the Dashboard, and there are multiple CSS styles which can be applied and modified as well.

Can I add HTML to the captions?

Yes, caption areas are fully HMTL capable.

Can I add an external links to galleries?

Since the captions are fully HTML capable, you can add external links and any other type of mark up you wish.

Reviews

Used to use Flogr with FlickR to provide image gallery management organization for clients. This plugin, while the free features are somewhat limited, does something close enough. And is better than the alternatives. Most importantly, it’s easy to teach. I will use again.

Definitely the best plugin, and in my opinion the only one suitable for a professional site.
and the free version is very wide, but it does not help!
To my mail for a problem i have responded to post a forum post! 🙁

Mobile version I do not like the layout of the gallery just vertically that runs down, it was more useful and beautiful even in Horizon!

You should be able to choose to use Horizontal and Vertical thumbnails, you can put them vertically or vertically only!